Editorial — High-performance piezo-/ferroelectric crystals

Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals with High Spontaneous Polarization

Piezo-optic and Dielectric Behavior of the Ferroelectric Lithium Heptagermanate Crystals

Ferroelectric liquid crystals

2014 A general symmetry argument is presented, and experiments on newly synthesized p-decyloxybenzylidene p’-amino 2-methyl butyl cinnamate are described, demonstrating that chiral smectic C and H liquid crystals are ferroelectric. Some of the properties of this new class of ferroelectrics are discussed. In spite of speculation on the possibility of ferroelectric liquid crystalline phases [1], ...

Flexible ferroelectric organic crystals

Flexible organic materials possessing useful electrical properties, such as ferroelectricity, are of crucial importance in the engineering of electronic devices. Up until now, however, only ferroelectric polymers have intrinsically met this flexibility requirement, leaving small-molecule organic ferroelectrics with room for improvement. Since both flexibility and ferroelectricity are rare prope...

High Performance Relaxor-Based Ferroelectric Single Crystals for Ultrasonic Transducer Applications

Relaxor-based ferroelectric single crystals Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PMN-PT) have drawn much attention in the ferroelectric field because of their excellent piezoelectric properties and high electromechanical coupling coefficients (d33~2000 pC/N, kt~60%) near the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB). Ternary Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3-Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PIN-PMN-PT) single crystals also possess outstan...